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“Article 3. The Reich Minister of the Interior with the concurrence of the participating higher authorities of the Reich shall issue the legal and administrative provisions for the administration and enforcement of this regulation. In doing so he shall determine to what extent the provisions shall apply to Jewish nationals of foreign countries.”
By Article 4 it was provided that in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the regulation shall apply where German administration and German courts have jurisdiction. (1943 RGBl. I, p. 372.)
Not only did the Nazis enact special discriminatory laws against Poles and Jews and political minorities; they also enacted discriminatory laws in favor of members of the Party. By the decree of 17 October 1939, it was provided that “for the area of the Greater German Reich, special jurisdiction in penal matters will be established for—
“1. Professional members of the Reich leadership of the SS.
“2. Professional members of the staffs of those Higher SS and Police Chiefs who possess the authority of issuing orders in those units which have been specially designated under numbers 3 to 6 below:
“3. Members of the SS units for special purposes;
“4. Members of the SS Death Head units (including their reinforcements);
“5. Members of the SS Junker schools;
“6. Members of police units for special purposes.”